Letang isn't getting savaged quite to the extent I expected this morning.....partially because he was viewed to have played a decent game aside the penalty, and also because the Guins' media perspective is that Couture embellished the play pretty badly. But it also seems to me team media has become somewhat less "sensitized" to his mistakes......maybe because they're admittedly down this season (but clearly still exist).
I can't get out of my mind that KL came into camp this season with a fairly serious hard-on for the media, after being called out pretty vocally for all his f*** ups last year......and he didn't like it one bit. For that reason, I feel like he was giving the press corps the cold shoulder. But as a team leader, the scribes need access to him on a daily basis; and for that reason, he might be getting a little more of the kid-gloves this year.
Anyway, JMO.....still, you just hate to lose on home ice to a team which, as was mentioned in today's game accounts, got shutout by the Dead Wings just two nights earlier. Meanwhile, good point about revenge on Saturday night......Habs outplayed the Guins pretty badly in Pittsburgh a couple weeks ago, and some payback would be nice, especially coming off last night's disappointment.
Just hope it's not one of those Saturday nights in Montreal where Carey Price (like he did in Pittsburgh) does his brick wall impression. I'm also keeping my fingers crossed Jarry doesn't wake up this morning with after-effects of that weird 3rd period gyration in the goal where he was thought by Mearsy and Errey to possibly have been hurt.
